PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Informed Consent, Weighted Arithmetic Mean, Social Emotions
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The scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. Study: participants in their 20s were asked to choose their favourite colours between two opinions, repeatedly and then graphed their overall preferences. Results: significant tendency for men to prefer blue and women to prefer pinker tones. Ok (cid:271)ut (cid:894)i(cid:374) 1(cid:1013)1(cid:1012)(cid:895) the ladies(cid:859) ho(cid:373)e jou(cid:396)(cid:374)al (cid:449)(cid:396)ote: (cid:862) the ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)all(cid:455) a(cid:272)(cid:272)epted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided colour is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the gi(cid:396)l. (cid:863) (future) king of great britain, george iv, 1896. Social psychology and biology: generally speaking, biologists study nature, social psychologists study nurture, although it is less clear-cut than that. Individual differences: how social situations and how they make people behave.
